Ask Ringo? Like, Pete Best was replaced by Ringo b/c George Martin thought he wasn’t good enough in the initial recording sessions with the band. Pete Best ca

Ask Ringo? Like, Pete Best was replaced by Ringo b/c George Martin thought he wasn’t good enough in the initial recording sessions with the band. Pete Best can claim to be an early member but that doesn’t take away from the fact that Ringo was there from the beginning. The analogy works pretty well with Musk here. Now, if you’re talking a Destiny’s Child situation where two of the early members were replaced in music videos — for songs they performed on and a record with their faces on the cover, you’d be correct. Michelle Williams can never claim to be an “original” member of the band, but she was part of the band from the time it started to take off, even if she didn’t get to accept a Grammy for the second album with her two band mates (who had to awkwardly go on stage with the girls they replaced).